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LIBRARY of CONGRESS 
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JAN 8 1904 

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CONTENTS 



The Summit of the Ozarks, . . . 
Scenery and Natural Curiosities, . 
Waters of Eureka Springs, . . 

Climatic and other Advantages, 

Diseases Cured, 

Pleasures and Amusements, 
Hotels, Conveniences and Expense, 
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CLOSE to the Missouri border line, in the north- 
western corner of the State of Arkansas, where the 
Ozark Mountain Range reaches its greatest alti- 
tude, men have caused to be reared a town which 
has become a health and pleasure resort for people from all 
parts of the United States. Along the mountain tops, 
sides, and bases houses have been placed in picturesque 
irregularity; and on the summit of the highest peak has 
been constructed a majestic and imposing hotel of stone, 
in which every modern improvement and convenience is 
to be found. From the observatory which surmounts the 
roof, and from the windows and verandas of the house, can 
be obtained a view to be found at few other places on the 
continent — an impressive panorama of nature. The hotel 
stands on the very summit of the Ozark Range. Spread 
out before the eye for miles in every direction, in huge 
billows of green, immovable and mute, are the mountains 
which have made this section of the country famed for its 
scenic beauty. 

From the Crescent — as the hotel has been named from 
the mountain on whose peak it stands — the observer looks 
down on all the mountain tops as far as the eye can range. 
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anything. The bhie hne of the horizon, where it seems to 
dip and meet the land, forms the only limit to his vision. 

The Ozarks are too high to be called hills ; yet scarcely 
lofty enough to be termed mountains, when compared with 
the stupendous peaks of the Rockies. The top of Crescent 
Mountain, where the Crescent Hotel stands, the very sum- 
mit of the Ozark Range, is not quite 2,000 feet above the 
sea level. There is little of the rugged grandeur of the 
stony peaks of the Rocky Mountains about the Ozarks ; 
they rather partake of the more quiet beauty of the ver- 
dure-covered Alps which have given to Switzerland its 
reputation as the scenic country of the world. Yet the 
soft, velvety surface of these eminences of the Ozarks 
is frequently broken by stern cliffs which rise to the 
height of several hundred feet and add variety and charm 
to the imposing landscape, which never fails to enrapture 
visitors. 

Eureka Springs, as the settlement itself is known, recalls 
strongly the quaint Alpine villages ot Switzerland, about 
which so much has been written. It is a town of some 
6,000 permanent residents. For a large part of the year, 
however, its population is enhanced by throngs of visitors, 
it being estimated that 50,000 persons from other parts of 
the country go there annually in search of health and 
pleasure. 

Ponce de Leon sought in vain for a fountain of perpetual 
youth. In this Ozark Range he could have found a 
country of perpetual fountains. Springs, as incessant as 
the strides of time, gush forth from the sides of hills at 
almost every hundred yards and commingle in the gulches 
to form softly-murmuring brooks, whose clear, crystal-like 
waters suddenly disappear into the earth, every here and 
there, only to reappear a few hundred yards farther on, 
rushing over gravel beds in their eager haste to join some 
river and make their way with it to the broad bosom of 
the restless ocean. 



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NEAR THE NAKKOWS. 



And it is these springs which have given to the town 
its name, and have caused it to be known throughout the 
breadth of the land as a health resort. Its splendid climate 
and the beauty of its scenery have made it a Mecca for 
pleasure seekers. 

It is also its springs which have caused this thriving set- 
tlement to be placed on what looks like a most unnatural 
site for a town. Nowhere is there a flat surface on which 
to build. Houses are everywhere perched on the sides of 
mountains, where it would seem impossible to keep a mad 
torrent of water, caused by the fury of a mountain storm, 
from washing them away. Yet the structures stand, 
staunch and true. A building which is one story in height 
on one side may be three or four stories high on the 
opposite. All the streets and footpaths are steep and cir- 
cuitous. To reach a house 200 yards away, one is 
frequently compelled to walk or drive over a mile, so round- 
about has it been found necessary to lay out the byways of 
travel. 



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The city has a splendid electric street car system, which 
traverses a route replete with beautiful sights ; but which, 
at places, travels miles to carry you from one given point 
to another only a block or two distant, the course it is 
forced to take being that circuitous. Eureka Springs also 
has an electric-light plant, water works, a sewer system, 
and all the salient features of a modern city. 

Beside the Crescent, which would be a credit to any 
city, it has numerous other hotels, many of them high- 
class ; has handsome churches, good school houses, attract- 
ive stores and shops, numerous pretty cottages and many 
pretentious homes. It is a place of culture and refine- 
ment. Many of the residents are people of superior edu- 
cation, who went there in search of lost health. They 
found it, and remained. 

Innumerable cases of remarkable cures by the waters of 
the place are related to visitors, and proof to sustain the 
statements offered. Basin springs abound in the town. 
Permanent residents and visitors alike drink the water. 
Everybody carries a cup or a large water bottle. No one 
passes a spring without stopping to drink. 

And it is its waters which brought to Eureka Springs 
every resident it contains ; every improvement it possesses. 
They also brought it a railroad. The excitement caused 
by the numerous remarkable cures reported from the place 
made people flock there when there were neither railroads 
to carry them nor hotels to house them. 

This led moneyed men to construct a railroad from 
Seligman, Missouri, on the Frisco System, through nine- 
teen miles of mountain fastnesses, to the new-found haven 
of health. It also led capitalists to build the handsome 
Crescent Hotel, which, from its lofty position on the sum- 
mit of Crescent Mountain, stands like a huge sentinel 
guarding the town. 

The St. Louis & North Arkansas Railroad, as the line 
constructed from Seligman was called, was afterward ex- 



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tended to Harrison, Arkansas. It is over the Frisco System 
that all travelers to Eureka Springs must ride, and a beauti- 
ful ride it is, too. Almost the entire tri]) from St. Louis, 
by which route people from the North and East travel, is 
made through the charming Ozark Mountains. The trips 
from the South and West over the line are scarcely less 
enjoyable and beautiful. 

No one who visits Eureka Springs for the first time will 
fail to experience a thrill when, after a run of nineteen 
miles through a gulch lined on both sides with mountains, 
this quaint city, built on the sides of those vast hills, sud- 
denly bursts upon his view. But it is when approaching the 
place over one of the high mountain drives in the early hours 
of nightfall, before the town has gone to sleep, that it pre- 
sents its most enchanting scene. The lights gushing forth 
from the windows of the homes, stores, and hotels perched 
on the mountain tops, and sides, and down below in the 
ravines, seem like a myriad of stars ; and, as your vehicle 
trundles over the rough, dark, and lonesome road, each star 
appears to be twinkling you a welcome and luring you on 
to it. 




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SCENERY AND NATURAL 
CURIOSITIES, 

THE whole country about Eureka Springs abounds 
in the beauties of nature. Towering mountains of 
green ; huge, rugged chffs ; gushing springs ; mur- 
muring brooks ; rocks of all sorts of strange and 
curious construction ; caves of most singular and interest- 
ing formations; gulches and vales, filled with almost every 
conceivable variety of scenery, charm and inspire the 
traveler who takes a ride or drive in any direction. A 
different trip may be taken every day in the month without 
exhausting this wonderfield of nature. And there will be 
new treasures to be found, new joys to be discovered, 
every moment of each day, from the time the blithesome 
daisy begins to dance in the early morning breeze until the 
modest violet covers up her drowsy head at night, and, 
drooping on her tired stem, falls off into silent, peaceful 
slumber. 

Scores of natural curiosities are within a short distance 
of Eureka Springs. All of them can be reached on horse- 
back and most of them with vehicles. 

TWO ENORMOUS SPRINGS. 

The largest spring in the surrounding country is what 
is known as Roaring River Spring, which is in Missouri, 
just over the State line. It flows forth from a cave at the 
base of a lofty cliff, and is the fountain head of Roaring 
River, which empties into White River. The spring is a 
drive of twenty-three miles from Eureka Springs, and of 
about ten miles from Seligman, Mo., on the Frisco 

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System. By means of a rowboat, it has been explored 
for several hundred feet back into the mountain. The 
outflow of water from it is enormous. A dam has been 
constructed, forming a lake at the spot where the water 
issues forth from its cavern home. Strangely enough, 
there is no roar to the spring. The flow of its waters is as 
silent and noiseless as night in Death Valley. 

But a legend explains the inappropriate name of this 
awe-inspiring work of nature. Here is the tale : At the 
time the name was given the spring an incessant roaring, 
echoing sound came forth from the cavern from which the 
water emerges. The land on which the lake is now located 
was then much higher. A mill stood beside it and 
utilized the water power. After a time, the roaring noises 
from the cavern began to increase daily in volume. They 
became like the din of a mighty battle. Suddenly there 
was a violent shaking of the earth; the ground sank, 
carrying the mill with it. For days the water gushed 
forth from the cavern in awful volume and fury. Then it 
subsided to its normal size. A large wheel, visible at the 
bottom of the clear, crystal-like water, was all that 
remained of the mill. The spring flowed forth from its 
mountain cavern in silence. Its roar had been hushed 
forever. 

Next to Roaring River Spring in magnitude, and fully 
as interesting, is Blue Spring. It is a ride of nine miles 
from Eureka Springs, over a wildly fascinating mountain 
road. The waters of Blue Spring issue straight up out of 
the earth, forming a circle fully seventy feet in diameter. 
Where the water flows off in a little creek to join White 
River, but a few hundred yards away, it is as clear white 
and transparent as plate glass. But the water in the spring 
itself is deep blue in appearance. Sometimes it has an 
absolute indigo hue, at others it is much lighter in shade. 
But when taken out of the spring the water at all times is 
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peculiar coloring, and why it appears so much darker some 
days than others, are problems yet to be solved. Its hue 
may be due to some coloring of the earth or vegetation 
on the sides or bottom of the spring's basin which is 
reflected through the transparent waters. 

The force with which the waters of Blue Spring come up 
from the earth is terrific. The crystal liquid comes forth 
cold as ice, but there is evidently some awful power beneath 
driving it. It is known that the spring is over 200 feet 
deep, yet the water reaches the surface seething and bub- 
bling. All attempts to get at the exact depth of the spring 
have proved futile. On clear days, from a certain point 
on a ledge above it, one can look down into it a distance 
which measurements have shown to be sixty-five feet. A 
rope with a ninety-pound anvil attached has been lowered 
into the water to a depth of 200 feet. At that distance 
the terrible force of the water stopped the anvil. 

A curious curve made by White River around Blue 
Spring makes almost a complete island of some 400 acres 
of land. Only a thin neck of ground saves the spring from 
being entirely cut off from the mainland. This river pen- 
insula was once an Indian camp ground. Arrow and spear 
heads and various other relics of the red man are still found 
there. The waters of the spring and a huge overhanging 
rock, on the side of a high bluff just above, capable of 
sheltering hundreds, made it an ideal spot for a home for 
the savage. This overhanging rock forms a most perfect 
canopy^ or roof. It extends out an enormous distance, 
completely protecting ,the .floor beneath, which is a level 
ledge. Evidences are to be found where the Indians 
hewed away the stone in places to make the spot more 
thoroughly adaptable and perfect for the purposes of a 
camp. 

There is talk of building a club house on the peninsula 
and utilizing the spring and 400 acres of ground as a sort 
of country club and general amusement resort. 

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THE NARROWS. 



Another spot shown to visitors is Moss Spring, but three 
miles from the city. Unlike Roaring River and Blue 
Springs, it gives forth no great volume of water. It is 
merely a dainty bit of nature's bric-a-brac. Out of a rocky 
ledge on the mountain side, over the entire surface of 
which moss has fastened its tender embrace, water oozes, 
slowly and silently. Down the straight smooth stone it 
runs, keeping constantly soaked the green covering of 
clinging moss. There is nothing of grandeur in the picture, 
but there is a quiet, delicate beauty which appeals strange- 
ly to the more tender phases of one's nature. 



POINTS OF OBSERVATION. 

Across the bridge from the little settlement of Beaver, 
on White River, is what is known as "The Narrows." 
A mountain range walls in the valley in which the river 
flows, and in which the village is situated. At "The 
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rocky cliffs, not more than 100 feet thick at the base, and 
less than ten feet wide at the summit. Over the river, at 
this spot, the St. Louis & North Arkansas Railroad built a 
bridge, and through these rocky cliffs, at their narrowest 
point, blasted a way for its tracks. By climbing to the top 
of this cliff, known as ''The Narrows," one can enjoy 
an exceptionally fine view of the surrounding country. 
Straight down, over 200 feet below, its waters washing 
the sides of the cliff on which you stand, flows the 
White River. On the opposite bank of the stream is 
Beaver. Still farther over is the White River, again 
walled in by the mountains. The range here takes a 
bend like a horse shoe, and hems in the river, forcing 
it to make a similar curve, and to turn back and double 
on its course. From the cliffs long stretches of valley 
land, with mountain peaks in the distance, are to be seen. 
in almost every direction. 

A bathing beach is located at Beaver, and it is also quite 
a point for fishing and boating. 

Another point, where on a clear day one can view the 
country for miles about, is the top of Pond Mountain. A 
strange bit of nature's work has given to this peak its 
name. On the very summit of this tall mound of earth is 
a pond of water which in the memory of the oldest inhab- 
itant has never been dry. The mountain is the highest 
peak for miles about. The pond is on the very highest 
point on it, so that no springs can feed it. Where the 
water comes from is a mystery which has for years per- 
plexed the good people of the surrounding country. 

Some three and a half miles south of the city, on a road 
much traversed, there is a point where guides stop with their 
charges to enable the visitors to gaze upon the vast expanse 
of landscape spread out before the eye. Pleasant View, the 
spot has been named. There is nothing special to mark 
the place, except that from that particular point such an 
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vision and impresses upon one the magnificence of the 
scenery about him. 

On the road to Berryville, after a deal of mountain 
climbing, you reach a point from which, on every side of 
you, the land slopes downward. It is four miles east of 
Eureka Springs. In the days before railroads traversed 
that section an inn was located there ; and the stages stopped 
for meals and, at times, for lodging for their passengers. 
With the passing of the stage coaches came the closing of 
the inn, which stood in a wilderness, solitary and alone. 
One day it burned, and now there is not so much as a 
piece of timber to mark where it stood. 

Standing on the site of that old inn — Grand View is 
the name aptly given the spot — there is laid out before 
your enraptured eye such a sight as can be had at few 
points in the entire world. You gaze down upon miles of 
mountains and great expanses of valleys nestling between 
them. You see King's River, with its curves and bridges, 
and miles away, along a lane, the road to Berryville, a 
thin ribbon of yellow in the mighty field of green. In the 
far distance it seems to be only a narrow footpath. Farther 
on can be observed the smoke from Berryville, and, beyond 
all. Lone Tree Mountain, where the Government has a 
scientific station, the huge, solitary tree on the peak of the 
mountain looking like a tiny black speck against the clear, 
blue sky. 

LARCiE CAVES. 

The Ozark region about Eureka Springs is a land of 
natural caves. They are to be found everywhere. Many 
of these subterranean caverns are enormous in size, and 
most of them possess innumerable queer and beautiful for- 
mations. The two most generally visited are Bennet's 
and Robbin's. 

The former is four miles out. Its opening has been 
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house Stands over the entrance. Back under the moun- 
tains for nearly half a mile the cave runs. Most of the 
way it is at least thirty or forty feet wide, and at some 
points much wider. The ceiling is from fifteen to thirty 
feet high at almost every part. At one time there was 
much valuable onyx and some rare stalactitic and stalag- 
mitic formations in the place, but most of them have been 
destroyed and carried away by visitors. 

Robbin's Cave is nine miles from Eureka Springs. The 
entrance is down in a ravine at the base of a tall mountain. 
A very narrow opening affords awkward ingress and egress. 
The place has not the width or height, as a rule, of Ben- 
net's Cave ; but it is far more attractive. It is also much 
longer, extending back, it is claimed, three miles. Van- 
dals have not as yet damaged it much, and it abounds in 
onyx and the most strange and interesting stalactitic and 
stalagmitic formations. At places perfect showers of water 
fall from the ceiling, and there are points where you can 
hear beneath you the murmur and flow of some lost sub- 
terranean river. 

SEISMIC EVIDENCES. 

A favorite horseback ride and drive is to Pivot Rock 
and Natural Bridge. It is a trip of only three miles, but 
the scenery is captivating every foot of the way. Grouped 
within a few hundred feet of each other are some curious 
works of Dame Nature. 

Pivot Rock stands on the edge of a terrace high up on 
the side of a mountain. It resembles a huge vase. There 
are three sections — the great bowl, the narrow stem, and 
the base. The bowl is largest at the top, tapering in like 
an urn as it approaches the stem. This bowl rock, which 
is fully ten feet high, or thick, is over twenty feet long and 
twelve feet wide at its top. It rests on a narrow stem of 
stone not over two and a half feet w^ide and less than six 
feet long. The stem stone is a little over two feet high, 

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PIVOT ROCK. 



or thick. A stone of somewhat larger dimensions which 
sticks up out of the ground nearly two feet forms the 
base beneath the stem and completes the vase effect. The 
stone of the three separate sections of the rock is of dif- 
ferent formations, the narrow stem being more yellow in 
color and of softer quality than either of the other parts. 
It seems impossible for it to support the huge top rock. 
One is constantly on the lookout to see the latter topple 
over and roll down the mountain side into the ravine, 
hundreds of feet below. A gush of wind or a slight shove 
would be sure to send it over, you imagine ; but it has 
withstood thousands of both. 

Perhaps a more interesting curiosity than Pivot Rock is 
the Natural Bridge, which sets a little lower down on the 
side of a mountain scarcely more than 100 yards away. 
It is another rock. Its ends form the piers, or supports, 
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Stone which has a natural arch. This arch stands sev- 
eral feet up in the air. One can either walk under it 
between the base, or pier stones, or cross over the 
top of the bridge. While the whole curiosity is one 
solid rock, it has the appearance of being composed 
of a series of stones of different formations which, in 
some way, were thrown into their present position and 
grew together. 

On the same mountain with Pivot Rock, around on an 
adjoining side, is Sliding Rock. It is just over the edge 
of the terrace on w^hich its sister curiosity stands. It is an 
immense stone which appears to have been sliding down 
the side of the mountain when, in some unaccountable 
manner, it was stopped. Gazing at it from beneath, it 
seems to be coming dow^n upon you. Involuntarily you 
draw away to avoid being crushed. 

These three curious freaks of nature so close together 
and various other enormous rocks near by, scattered in all 
sorts of positions over the sides and bases of the mountains, 
give unmistakable evidence that, at some period, an awful 
disturbance took place in that section. 

Pivot Rock and Natural Bridge Rock are made up of 
various smaller stones of different formations which have 
grown together. A violent earthquake, or some sort of 
seismic disturbance of terrific force, must have thrown 
different stones in the position in which they are now found 
in these strange freaks of nature. Time grew them 
together. 

Undoubtedly Sliding Rock was hurled from higher up 
on the mountain, but was probably stopped by catch- 
ing in the earth while on its downw^ard journey. Other 
huge stones on the terraces and sides of the mountains, 
and in the deep ravines below, bear every appearance 
of having been thrown into their present places by 
some mighty force and not to have grown where they 
now stand. 

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OTHER INTERESTING SPOTS. 

Sanitarium Lake, three miles south of the city, is an 
artificial basin of water constructed on the site of what was 
once a natural lake. It is a natural receptacle for the 
rainfall of the mountains, which wall it in on all sides. A 
ledge of sandrock, nature's own work, once formed a dam 
for the waters. But Time's ravages wore on it. The 
imprisoned waters cut their way through the stone, and, 
dropping to a narrow ravine pass below, escaped out of the 
mountains. They fled to a river, leaving the peaceful lake 
high and dry. 

Thirty-two springs give up their waters to supply Sani- 
tarium Lake, in addition to the rainfall it receives. Its 
depth, in places, is over thirty feet. The spot is delight- 
ful. On the south side of the lake rise huge perpendicular 
bluffs of red marble or granite, 200 and 300 feet high, 
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frame of green for the whole valley in which the lake 
reposes. 

One of the attractive spots about Eureka Springs is the 
waterworks on the western outskirts of the city. Here 
has been constructed a large dam, holding a vast reservoir 
of water, and a pumping station of considerable capacity. 
Arsenic, Sycamore, Chicago and other springs supply the 
water, which is sent through mains to all parts of the city. 
The reservoir is in a gulch at the head of the ravine 
through which flows Leatherwood Creek. On a mountain 
side, standing out almost over the reservoir, like some 
mighty guardian, is what is known as Sentinel Rock. 

An odd curiosity is Miner's Rock, four miles from town. 
On a terrace on a mountain side juts out boldly an over- 
hanging rock, forming an arched, or sort of shell-shaped, 
roof, like those frequently seen over band stands. The 
curiosity derives its name from the fact that miners who 
once prospected for gold in the neighborhood availed 
themselves of the shelter the natural roof formed by the 
rock affords and made their camp beneath it. 

The ''Maine" is a curious-looking rock, which received 
its name from the fact that people thought it looked like a 
wrecked ship. The Sphinx is another rock. It is not 
unUke the Sphinx of Egypt, hence the title. Because of 
its resemblance to the bird which is the emblem of our 
country, another odd stone is known as Eagle Rock. 

Dozens of other curiosities of nature are to be found 
within a short distance of Eureka Springs. 

BEWITCHING LEATHERWOOD VALE. 

Few drives in the world rival in variety and beauty a 
trip through Leatherwood Vale. A steep road down Oil 
Spring Gulch, a charming bit of scenery itself, leads 
to the vale. On both sides of the gulch are huge 
ledges and cliffs ruggedly grand. Wild violets and 

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SANITARIUM LAKE. 



Other flowers are everywhere about, adding color and 
fascination to the view. 

The valley through which the crystal waters of Leather- 
wood Creek wend their peaceful course teems with 
delightful touches of scenery of every imaginable character. 
At one time you behold great ledges and bluffs of the most 
impressive grandeur, with now and then cedar trees in 
profusion appearently growing out of the very stone itself. 
At another moment mighty hills of the softest green, 
towering above you hundreds of feet, greet the eye. 

Nature must have been in a strange mood when she con- 
structed this bit of land. One curiosity after another is 
constantly arising as you wander through the romantic spot. 
Perched on the top of one of the loftiest peaks is Castle 
Rock. From the deep ravine along which you pass in the 
drive this stone looks strangely like a castle of one of the 
knights of old, when every feudal chieftain had to fortify 
his home against attack. There is an opening in the rock 
like a door. As you pass you almost expect to see an 
armed sentinel, clad in armor, appear through it and 
demand to know your mission. 

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WHITE KIVEK BLUFFS. 



At another place in the drive you pass under the 
branches of the " Swing Tree. ' ' Two trees have so grown 
into each other that the large lower limb of one connects 
both, it drooping in a graceful curve between the two 
trunks like the rope of a swing. 

At almost every turn new curiosities and charms greet 
you. 

And while passing through this bewitching vale you are 
constantly crossing and recrossing the shallow and quaint 
little Leatherwood Creek. Every now and then the clear, 
transparent waters of this tiny stream suddenly dart beneath 
the surface of the earth and disappear, as though seeking to 
elude some pursuer. But a little farther on you find them 
again playfully wending their way down the canyon. 

All over the grass-covered mountains, the rugged cliffs, 
and the valley beneath wild violets and other flowers, 
growing in untrammeled profusion, add the gorgeousness 
of their color to the exquisite picture. At certain seasons 
bushes and trees are covered with bright blossoms which 
laden the air with their fragrance. The sweet song of the 
southern mocking bird is answered by the soft notes of the 

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thrush ; and one gazes intently upward, expecting every 
minute to see some timid fawn or majestic stag appear on 
top of one of those lofty green peaks, or peer over a pro- 
truding crag, sniff the air, and, becoming aware of your 
presence, be off like the wind. 

It is a scene which thrills and enraptures. It takes you 
back to childhood days and your long-forgotten dreams of 
fairyland. 

And when night falls over that vale there is not a sound 
to break the silence. There are no coyotes to disturb the 
quiet with their annoying yelps, no frogs to add to the 
loneliness by their dismal croaking. A spirit of peace and 
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WATERS OF EUREKA SPRINGS. 

THE history of the waters of Eureka Springs is 
interwoven with legendary tales. Of course, it is 
taken for granted that these springs have existed 
and flowed since before man came on earth ; but 
stories, strange and interesting, are told without number 
of how they came to be discovered and their curative 
properties first became known. Pretty as are the legends 
woven about these quiet little waters, few have aught but 
tradition to sustain them. One of the most generally 
accepted stories tells of the Osage Indians making pilgrim- 
ages to the place, and availing themselves of the medicinal 
virtues of the springs before the foot of the white man had 
ever pressed the virgin soil. Others relate how the 
Spaniards, the first white men to visit the country, had 
cured their ills there when the place was still a part 
of the territory of Louisiana and a possession of the Spanish 
crown. 

But the first authentic discovery of the curative powers 
of the waters was made by Dr. Alvah Jackson, a pioneer 
physician of Carroll County, in which they are located. 
He was on a hunting trip with his son. At that time the 
mountains abounded in deer and all sorts of game. The 
son had suffered for years from running sore eyes. 
They remained fastened in the morning. It had been his 
custom to open them by bathing them in cold water. 
While camping with his father on the hunting trip, the lad 
went to a near-by spring every morning and bathed his 
eyes in its cold, crystal waters. His father noticed an im- 
provement in the eyes. The bathing was continued. 
The lad was cured. 

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an eye water which is now generally believed to have been 
merely the pure product of the spring. 

Some years latter, Judge Saunders, a friend of Dr. 
Jackson, found himself broken in health. Physicians had 
availed nothing. Dr. Jackson advised him to visit the 
spring which had cured young Jackson. Judge Saunders 
went and was restored to health. His gratitude was un- 
bounded. Returning to his home, he heralded the re- 
markable fact to the world. 

This was in the spring of 1879, On the Fourth of July 
of that year a large camp of people gathered about what is 
now known as Basin Spring. They named the spot Eureka, 
from the Greek word meaning '' I have found it. " And 
from that day to this the town which sprung up has been 
known as Eureka Springs. 

And the place arose as if by magic. Its wonderful cures 
were proclaimed; excitement spread. The camp grew with 
bounds. A city sprang into existence. By October, 1880, 
the place had a population of several thousand. And the 
nearest railroad station was Seligman, nineteen miles away. 

Within the corporate limits of the city are over forty 
springs. Of these the Basin, Crescent, Harding, Dairy, 
Grotto, and Sweet have been handsomely improved, and 
add greatly to the attractive appearance of the place. The 
Magnetic, McKinley, Bryan, Little Eureka, and Laundry 
springs are among the best known of the others. All of 
the forty odd springs within the limits of Eureka Springs 
are held in trust by the city, and their waters are free to 
the public for all time to come. The waters are clear, 
cool, soft, pleasant, and palatable. Analysis shows them all 
to be substantially the same. Purity is their great quality. 
There is not the slightest taint of mineral or other foreign 
substance in their taste. 

And that is the remarkable feature of the place. These 
wonderful cures, of which they offer you indisputable proofs, 
are produced by waters for which no medicinal claims are 

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HARDING SPRING. 

made except that they are pure. Pure water, however, is 
the greatest solvent in nature. It is the principal factor 
in healthy digestion, assimilation, and excretion. Pure, 
cold water, unadulterated with minerals or drugs of any 
sort, is the greatest tonic of all waters. Pure, natural 
spring water will kill germs which will live in distilled 
water. Except for a very few special uses, mineral water 
is spoiled. 

Analysis, by the best chemists in the country, of Eureka 
Springs water shows that in each gallon of 231 cubic 
inches there are less than six grains of chemical ingredients. 
This is an almost incredibly small amount. Here is what 
the analysis shows each gallon of 231 cubic inches to 
contain : 

Chloride sodium, . . , „ . 0.19 grs. 

Sulphate soda, 0.09 " 

Bicarbonate soda, 0.15 " 

Sulphate potash, 0.13 '* 

Bicarbonate lime, 4.43 " 

Bicarbonate magnesia, 0.47 " 

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Iron and alumina, 
Silica, . . . . 



0.08 grs. 
0.31 *' 



Total, 5.85 grs. 

Free ammonia, 0.14 r 

.,,.., A AT^ parts in millions. 

Albummoid ammonia, . . . . 0.07 (^ 

It has been ascertained that there is in each gallon of 
Eureka Springs water 28.52 cubic inches of gaseous con- 
tents. The fact that there is a large proportion of 
nitrogen in the water makes the gaseous contents remark- 
able. A large proportion of nitrogen means a proportion- 
ately large amount of oxygen. 

The following table will show how the waters of Eureka 
Springs compare with those of other popular springs in 
the matter of solids and gaseous elements : 



Eureka Springs, Ark., 
Orkney Springs, Va. , 
Berkley Springs, W. Va. , 
Birchdale Springs, N. H., 
Clarendon Springs, Vt. , 
Jordan Alum Springs, Va. , 
Hot Springs, Ark. , . 



It is hard to realize that water which possesses merely 
the attribute of being pure can perform all the remarkable 
cures attributed to these springs at Eureka. Yet, when 
you doubt it, they confront you with proofs. Of course, 
the waters are aided by pure, pine-ladened mountain air, 
a clear, dry atmosphere, and a delightfully temperate 
climate, with absolute freedom from stagnant waters and 
malaria. But it is the waters to which the cures are 
attributed, the other advantages of the place being 
generally regarded as very minor and incidental. It is 
claimed by some who seek to explain the cures that as 
the human system contains miles upon miles of lymph 
channels, countless numbers of lymphatic glands, besides the 

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SOLIDS. 


GASES. 


. 5.85 grs. 


28.62 cubic ins 


. 10.128 " 




. 10.888 " 




. 4.79 «' 




. 5.76 " 


6.97 cubic ins. 


. 6.196 " 


1.97 cubic ins. 


. 8.552 '' 





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perspiratory glands and canals and that, as all are absolute- 
ly essential in carrying the materials for the renewal of 
life, besides passing away the product of decomposition, 
many diseases are due to these human canals becoming 
over-loaded and clogged. Pure water is the most nearly 
universal solvent in nature, and the theory is that the 
Eureka Springs water, being so pure, cures by filtering 
through the tissues of the body and washing out im- 
purities which clog the canals. 

In conjunction with drinking the water, most invalids 
who visit Eureka Springs take a course of baths, which are 
considered of great assistance in the treatment of many 
ailments. There are finely-equipped bath houses in the 
town, where almost any known kind of bath can be had. 

Every resident of Eureka Springs, be it man, woman, or 
child, is a believer in the waters. And all prove their 
faith. Sick or well, they never miss an opportunity to 
drink from a spring. None claim any special virtue for 
the waters except their purity. Yet doctors of the highest 
standing and laymen of unquestioned integrity relate case 
after case of most remarkable cures made at the place. 
Their- statements carry conviction. Skeptics are con- 
vinced. They become imbued with supreme confidence 
in the waters. The feeling seems to be a part of the very 
atmosphere of the place. 




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CLIMATIC AND OTHER ADVAN- 
TAGES. 

NATURE has been wondrous kind to Eureka 
Springs. She has treated her hke a favorite 
child. In addition to giving her springs whose 
waters, while healing nearly every known ill to 
which flesh is heir, are clear, cool, palatable, and refresh- 
ing, she has lavished almost every other imaginable advan- 
tage upon her. She has placed her pet in the midst of 
scenery, beautiful, diversified, inspiring, such as is to be 
found at few other spots on the continent. Then Dame 
Nature has located her at an ideal altitude, and has pro- 
vided her with a climate and temperature of the most en- 
joyable character; pure, bracing air; pine forests to add to 
her general health ; and a soil of rock and gravel formation 
which rapidly carries off all rainfall, leaving everything dry 
and clean and keeping the place free from stagnant ^^'ater 
and its concomitant pests of malaria and mosquitoes. What 
more could any town ask ? 

Eureka Springs is almost 2,000 feet above sea level. 
This is the most desirable altitude from the standpoint of 
health — it is high enough and yet not too high. Its alti- 
tude also gives it a charming climate and temperature, 
which make it a summer resort for Southern people and 
a winter resort for those of the North. In other words, 
people from Texas, Oklahoma, Indian Territory, Arkansas, 
Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, and other Southern States 
visit Eureka Springs in large numbers in the summer time ; 
while those from Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and the 
Northwest go there in winter. Residents of Chicago, St. 
Louis, and Kansas City like to go in the spring, when the 
hills and dales are donning their bright garments of green, 

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SWEET SPRING. 



after having appeared for months in the sombre mourning 
of winter ; or they like to go in the fall, when the foliage on 
the trees assumes that brilliant, gorgeous red which is the 
sad forerunner of its approaching end, and the ground is 
covered with fallen leaves, dry and dead. At these periods 
the temperature is delightful, the scenery enrapturing. 

In round numbers, the mean annual temperature of 
Eureka Springs is 58 degrees. The average for the spring 
months of March, April, and May is 61 degrees. A record 
of 74 degrees is the average for the summer months of 
June, July, and August. During September, October, and 
November, the fall term, the average is 58 degrees. The 
winter months of December, January, and February average 
43 degrees. Its high altitude makes the evenings most 
cool and pleasant during the summer months, and no mat- 



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ter how warm the day a blanket will be found decidedly 
comfortable at night. There is never a night when sweet, 
refreshing sleep, that great restorer of health, cannot be 
enjoyed. There are no extremes to the temperature of 
Eureka, and no sudden changes. 

Hot Springs, further south in the same State and located 
in the same mountain range, but at a much lower altitude, 
has a mean annual temperature three degrees higher 
than Eureka Springs, and an average summer temperature 
sev^en degrees higher. 

Eureka Springs has all the advantages of the somewhat 
famed Asheville, N. C, and several others that the latter 
does not possess. There is not much difference in their 
altitudes, and the same pine-ladened air is found at the 
Arkansas resort. With a much heavier rainfall, Eureka 
Springs has less humidity in its atmosphere. This is due 
to the peculiar character of the soil, which carries off the 
water rapidly and leaves the air dry and clear. 

The average rainfall at Eureka Springs would be termed 
medium. It is a little less than thirty-three inches. Yet 
the water is carried off so quickly that the air is seldom 
damp. It is the exception that the atmosphere is not dry 
and clear. The place averages 209 clear days a year, 
while Los Angeles, Cal., with the abnormally small mean 
annual rainfall of less than eighteen inches, can boast of an 
average of only 171 clear days, thirty-eight less. Hot 
Springs averages 162 clear days, St. Louis 119, Chicago 
108, and New York only 100. 

Where is there another health resort which has so mucii 
to offer the invalid as Eureka Springs ? Besides its cura- 
tive and palatable waters, it gives him altitude and pure, 
dry, mountain, pine-ladened air, clear, bright weather, a 
delightful temperature and most charming and enjoyable 
scenery. 

May it not be that the inhabitants of Eureka Springs 
underestimate the value of the other natural advantages of 

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the place as an aid to the waters in effecting cures? 
There is a charm about the clear, blue skies ; the bright, 
sunshiny mornings and afternoons ; the pleasant tempera- 
ture of the days; the coolness of the nights, and the 
beauty and variety of the scenery which brings about 
peace and contentment. And peace and contentment are 
great helps in restoring impaired health. From the 
veranda of the Crescent Hotel an invalid may gaze for 
hours on the inspiring spread of land stretched out before 
him for miles in every direction. To his careful eye each 
moment discloses some new beauty, each glance a fresh 
charm. And as he admires the silent, but majestic, ex- 
panse of mountain country, he feels that he is at peace 
with all the world and that all the world is at peace with 
him. Back to his childhood days his thoughts un- 
consciously wander. Again he rambles in boyish ecstasy 
through tangled woodlands and shady dells. Perhaps the 
tiny sweetheart of his youth is beside him. And while his 
thoughts are back so many years, the gathering shades of 
night silently close in on him. The mountains with all 
nature's loveliness begin to fade from his view. He awakes 
from his reverie, and, with a sigh, retires within the 
cheery shelter of the big hotel. Fain would he return to 
that veranda and again take up the thread of his thoughts 
where it was dropped. On that porch he would be con- 
tent to sit and dream away his remaining years. 




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DISEASES CURED. 

TROUBLES of the stomach, liver, kidneys, and 
bladder — and nearly all diseases arise from these 
organs — seem to be almost invariably benefited, 
if not entirely cured, by the waters of Eureka 
Springs. It is a famous place for the treatment of Bright's 
disease, and it is positively asserted that even this dread 
malady has been permanently cured there. Diseases of 
the eye and skin, and, in fact, almost every imaginable ail- 
ment yield readily to the waters. After a serious illness it 
is an ideal place to convalesce. Its altitude, its bright 
pleasing scenery, its clear dry weather, agreeable tempera- 
ture, pure air and pure water appeal strongly to the man 
who has just gone through a serious siege of illness, and it 
is wonderful how rapidly one builds up at the place. 

Here are some of the diseases which the waters are 
known to have cured : 

Kidney Troubles. — In no cases have these waters 
proven more effective than in the treatment of diseases of 
the kidneys. The most obstinate and chronic cases have 
yielded to them. Even the supposedly incurable Bright's 
disease has been permanently conquered by these waters, 
according to the claims of doctors of unquestioned rep- 
utation and standing. These physicians assert that there 
could have been no mistake in the diagnosis of the cases 
where cures were effected. 

Rheumatism. — This ailment, even in its most chronic 
form, yields readily to these waters. Relief is almost in- 
stantaneous, and it is seldom that a permaneiit cure is not 
made in a short time. 

Catarrhal Troubles. — Relief is invariable in these 
cases ; and, except in the most chronic and persistent ones, 
a permanent cure usually follows. 

Catarrh of the Bladder. — Recovery from this is 
common. 

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GROTTO SPRING. 



Asthma. — Nearly all cases are relieved immediately 
and many cured. 

Malaria. — There are no stagnant waters and no mala- 
ria in the Eureka Springs country. People who visit the 
place from malarial districts get prompt relief. 

Liver Complaint. — Most of these cases come from 
malarial districts, hence yield readily to the waters and air 
of Eureka. Great benefits have been received, even where 
structural changes have commenced. 

Diseases of the Stomach. — Dyspepsia, indigestion, and 
other troubles of this organ, even where of long standing, 
are quickly relieved by these waters. It is claimed that 
there have been numerous cures of ulcer and cancer of the 
stomach. 

Paralysis. — Numerous cases have been either cured or 
relieved. 

Nervous Diseases. — Nervous prostration and all other 
troubles of the nervous system are cured at Eureka Springs. 
The waters, the captivating drives and scenery, the invigor- 

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ating air stimulate the blood and appetite, and, aided by 
the cooling breezes of the night, bring that sweet slumber 
and peaceful rest needed to restore the exhausted and de- 
bilitated system. 

Diseases of Women. — These waters have been most 
effective in various troubles peculiar to women. 

Diseases of the Skin. — Hundreds of cases of Eczema 
and other skin troubles have been permanently benefited. 

Scrofula. — The waters have proven most efficacious in 
the treatment of this ailment, which manifests itself in so 
many skin and blood diseases. 

Diseases of the Eye. — Granulated lids, conjunctivitis 
and other forms of eye troubles have been benefited and 
cured at the springs. There are two instances recorded 
where loss of sight, due to atrophy of optic nerve, have 
been cured. Mrs. John LePage of Webb City, Mo. , who 
became blind when only two years of age, and was educated 
in a blind asylum, regained her sight through the waters of 
Eureka Springs long after she had grown up and married. 

General Debility, Insomnia, Diseases of the Blood, 
Dropsy, Hay Fever, Rheumatic Gout and Epilepsy are 
also among the diseases which have been cured at the resort. 

To sum it up, there are few human ills of any kind which 
treatment at this place will not, at least, relieve. 

If all who have been cured or benefited by the waters 
of Eureka Springs were brought together there would not 
be a hall in the United States large enough to hold them. 
The best friends the place has are those who have gone 
there for treatment. There is no gratitude like that of one 
who has been cured of some serious malady. Good health 
is the greatest boon known to mankind, and in the hearts 
of those who found it at Eureka Springs there will forever 
be a tender spot for the resort. They will always cherish 
pleasant recollections of the place, and ever be ready to 
speak a kind word in its behalf. 

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PLEASURES AND AMUSEMENTS. 

IT is not the wild dissipations and debilitating pleasures 
of a strenuous city life that one finds at Eureka Springs, 
but rather the quiet, wholesome joys of mountain 
and woodland. It is true there are hops every 
Saturday night at the Crescent Hotel, and theaters where 
attractions appear periodically; but riding, driving, walking, 
hunting, and fishing are the recognized features of the 
pleasure side of life at the resort. Everybody rides horse- 
back at Eureka — men, women, and children. It matters 
not whether the visitors have ever sat on a horse before, 
they take to riding at this place. There are competent 
instructors to teach them and to take them over the pretty 
and attractive drives. 

And there are no horses so easy to ride as the animals 
used in this little section of mountain country. Anybody 
can ride one, so little motion is there to his back, whether 
he be on a walk or a fox trot. Ladies and children who have 
never been on a horse before learn to ride fairly well in a 
day. All the animals used in the place for riding are docile 
as dogs. No living creature is more sure of foot. They 
have been trained to these mountains. Wherever a goat 
can climb they can go. Their endurance seems inexhaust- 
ible. People who arrive there helpless invalids, as soon as 
the first signs of returning health appear are to be found 
astride a horse, and are off with the other visitors enjoying 
an exhilarating canter over the delightful mountain paths 
in the clear, bracing air. 

Driving is another of the sports of Eureka. The roads 
over the mountains are seldom level, and frequently ex- 
tremely rough, but there is a wild, rugged beauty about 
the scenery which more than repays one for the rough jolts 

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LAWN TENNIS AT THE CRESCENT. 



he frequently receives in riding in a vehicle over those 
harsh Ozark peaks and gulches. There is a horseback path 
leading to every natural curiosity and interesting bit of 
scenery in the entire mountain range, and nearly all of the 
places can also be reached with a vehicle. It is the fact 
that there are so many different rides and drives about the 
place and that all of them are so replete with such ever- 
changing and charming views that makes riding and driving 
such favorite pastimes with people who visit this unique 
Arkansas resort in search of either health or pleasure. 

White and King's rivers both afford excellent fishing, 
and a man can go out a few miles into the country in 
almost any direction and find a good day's sport in hunting. 
Those fond of these pastimes, therefore, can find them at 
Eureka. 

Three miles south of the city is Sanitarmm Lake, an 
artificial body of water, where boating and bathing are to 

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SWEET SPRING, 



be had. At the Narrows on White River, where the Httle 
settlement of Beaver is located on the opposite bank, quite 
a bathing plant has been established with numerous bath 
houses and other conveniences. Boating and fishing are 
to be had here, and there is a baseball ground laid out 
where match games between the teams of the different 
towns of that section are frequently played. 

At the Crescent Hotel can be found tennis courts, 
bowling alleys, ping-pong tables, and other means for the 
enjoyment of popular games and pastimes. 

Beautiful grounds have been purchased and enclosed at 
the famous Dairy Spring, where a summer auditorium, 
seating 3,000 people, has been erected. Operas, dramas, 
concerts, and lectures by high-class talent are given here 
periodically. Street cars, which pass the place, run as late 

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ON WHITE RIVER. 



as 11 o'clock at night, and carry people to and from all 
parts of the city. 

There is also an opera house in the lower end of the 
town, where traveling attractions appear occasionally 
throughout the year. 

But all pastimes and entertainments at Eureka Springs 
are secondary to horse-back riding. It is the conspicuous 
feature of the pleasure-life of the place. And what is more 
exhilarating and enjoyable than a gallop over those hills 
and vales on a safe, sturdy steed ? 

Every direction in which you turn you behold narrow, 
serpentine bridal paths. They cross cliffs and ravines and 
encircle the loftiest mountain peaks. You see them in 
places where it looks impossible for any horse to travel, 
but these Eureka horses pass over them without so much 
as ''batting an eye." Traveling along the deep gulches, 
you look in wonderment at the ragged crags and ledges 
and lofty peaks, hundreds of feet above you. A little 
later you are riding over those same ragged crags and 
ledges and climbing to the very summit of those lofty 



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peaks. And as you look down upon the irregular, 
straggling gulch you left but a few minutes before, the 
height seems three times as great as it did when you 
gazed up at the peak in wonderment from below. You 
feel it must be a thousand feet or more down. Perhaps 
you give an involuntary shudder as you figure how horrible 
would be the consequences if your horse toppled over with 
you. But the shudder is gone in a moment. The steady, 
unfaltering stride of the sure-footed beast makes you feel 
that it is impossible for him to even stumble. 

And when you return to your hotel after a morning's or 
afternoon's ride in the clear, bracing mountain air amid 
such alluring scenery and surroundings, there is a ruddy 
glow to your cheeks, your blood tingles with new life and 
you feel all the exhilaration of a school boy at play. Your 
enjoyment is intense. You are happy. Your pleasure 
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HOTELS, CONVENIENCES, AND 
EXPENSE. 

EUREKA SPRINGS is a town of hotels and boarding 
and rooming houses. Besides the Crescent, which 
is the pride of the place, there are a dozen fair-sized 
hotels, and three-fourths of the residences of the 
town have out signs announcing that furnished rooms, or 
board, or both are to be obtained there. 

On the summit of the towering peak of Crescent Moun- 
tain, overlooking the whole settlement, stands the Crescent 
Hotel. It is an imposing edifice of rough-hewn stone, in 
which every modern convenience is to be found. On its 
construction $300,000 w^as expended. Everything about 
it is complete and substantial ; nothing was stinted. Its 
rotunda is a gem of architectural beauty. It is all finished 
in hardwood ; and near its center is a huge fireplace of 
quaint, old-fashioned design, where the guests are wont to 
congregate in the cool of the evening, or on chilly, rainy 
days; and, before the bright open fire, indulge in tales and 
reminiscences. In this retunda there is music every even- 
ing the year round — for the hotel is open throughout the 
year — and every Saturday evening there is a hop which 
is one of the principal social pleasures of the resort. A 
handsome tap and grill room is a feature of the Crescent. 
There are also tennis courts, croquet grounds, bowling 
alleys, and ping-pong tables. Water from the various 
leading local springs is supplied from a fountain in the 
rotunda. The rooms are bright and cheerful ; the table 
high-class. An observatory surmounts the hotel, and from 
it the country for miles about can be seen. It is such a 
sight as is to be had at few places in the United States. 
From the verandas of the hotel and from every window in 

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PALACE BATH Holibt. 



the house there can also be obtained impressive surveys of 
that delightful mountain region. The rates at the Crescent 
range from $2.50 to |4 per day and from $12 to $21 per 
week. 

Thatch Cottage, a few blocks removed from the Cres- 
cent, is an attractive frame structure of good size, which is 
also much frequented by people who visit Eureka Springs 
in search of health or pleasure. The Wadsworth is a sub- 
stantial brick building on the main business street of the 
city, which receives a large patronage from commercial men. 
Among the other hotels are the Sweet Spring Hotel, Mag- 
netic Spring Hotel, Pence House, Mountain View Hotel, 
Chautauqua House, New National Hotel, Calohan Cottage, 
Landaker House, Southern Hotel, and Lindell Hotel. Rates 
at these places range from $6 per week up. 

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There is also a new hotel, to contain about 100 rooms, 
in the course of construction in the business quarter of the 
city. It will be a stone structure and be located near the 
Palace Bath House. The Chicago capitalists who built the 
latter are interested in the hotel. 

There are several bath houses at Eureka Springs. The 
Palace is a very elegant and handsomely furnished place, 
where almost any known kind of bath can be obtained. 
The Basin Spring Bath House is another large and well- 
equipped establishment. The Sweet Spring Bath House is 
still another ; so that all advantages for taking baths in the 
Eureka Springs water have been provided. 

The town also boasts of a sanitarium. It is known as 
the Sisters of Mercy Hospital, and is a well-conducted 
institution. 

The parties who constructed the artificial body of water 
known as Sanitarium Lake, a short distance south of the 
city limits, have projected a sanitarium on a large scale. 
They have nearly 1,800 acres of grounds, covered with 
pine trees. Besides building the lake, they have already 
constructed several miles of excellent driveways and some 
arched stone bridges, and contemplate a large expenditure 
of money in improving and beautifying the place. 

At few health or pleasure resorts are prices as low as at 
Eureka Springs. Perhaps no other house in the countrv 
offers as low rates for the same quality of service as the 
Crescent ; and, generally speaking, the other hotels in the 
town are proportionately reasonable in their charges. A 
riding horse can he hired for the morning or afternoon for 
$1, a carriage takes you to or from the station to the hotel 
for 25 cents, and other livery charges are in the same 
ratio. In short, there is no place where a man can get 
more for his money than at Eureka Springs. 

A business man can keep in constant touch with the 
outside world. There are two mails a day, telegraph and 
telephone communication and express service. St. Louis, 

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Kansas City, and 
Texas daily papers 
reach the resort 
about twelve hours 
after the time of 
their issue, the 
morningpapers 
getting in early on 
the day of publica- 
tion. Banking 
facilities are also 
provided, and 
there are stores 
and shops of all 
kinds. Local 
newspapers are 
issued, and the 
town has churches 
of all denomina- 
tions, and good 
schools. The train 
service from the 
place is regular 
and good. There is at least one train a day to any section 
of the United States to which one may want to go. 
But nobody who visits Eureka Springs ever wants to go. 




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HOW TO REACH EUREKA SPRINGS. 

'' i4 LL roads lead to Rome." Only one road leads 

/\ to Eureka Springs, and that is the Frisco 

t \ System. A connecting line, known as the St. 

Louis & North Arkansas Railroad, departs from the 

Frisco tracks at Seligman, Mo., and enters the curious, 

delightful resort after a run of nineteen miles down a gulch 

in the mountains. 

Although the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad, or 
the Frisco System, as it is called, is the only road which 
reaches Eureka Springs, it does so from four different 
directions — north, east, south, and west. People can 
reach it from St. Louis or Kansas City in a run of about 
twelve hours, and the time from Memphis, Tenn., or 
Dallas, Tex., is practically the same. Visitors from the 
North and East can take the Frisco from St. Louis ; from 
the country west of the Missouri River they can travel over 
the line from Kansas City ; from the South and Southeast 
they can go by way of Birmingham, Ala. , and Memphis, 
Tenn.; while from Texas and the Southwest two routes 
can be taken, one by way of Paris and the Texas Divi- 
sion, and the other by way of Brownwood, Ft. Worth, or 
Sherman and the Red River Division. From all points 
in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Indian Territory direct service 
is given over the Frisco rails. Round-trip tickets from all 
places on the system are sold the year round at low rates. 
All tickets reading to or from Texas points have a stop- 
over privilege of ten days at Seligman, to enable passengers 
to visit Eureka Springs. 

Passengers from St. Louis run almost the entire dis- 
tance through the enchanting Ozark Range, while the 
trips from all other directions are scarcely less attractive 

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and interesting, for there is always ''something to see on 
the Frisco." 

And whether you go to Eureka Springs for health or 
pleasure, you will feel a pang of regret when the day 
arrives when you must depart. No one ever visits the spot 
without desiring to return. The cool, refreshing waters of 
its springs, the bracing mountain air, the clear, cloudless 
skies, the rides and drives over towering mounds of green, 
along wild, ragged cliffs, and through quiet, peaceful dales 
all leave an impression which even time cannot efface. 
They live in fond memory as long as life lasts. 




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TESTIMONIALS. 



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TESTIMONIALS by the hundreds have been received from 
people who have derived the benefits to be obtained at Eureka 
Springs. A few of these are given. 
Here is a letter from the Vice-President and General Manager of the 
Union Stock Yards and Transit Co. of Chicago, 111. 

Union Stock Yards, Chicago, III., January 17, 189'J. 
My Dear Doctor, — I am glad of the opportunity to add my testi- 
monial as to the efficacy of the wonderful waters of Eureka Springs. 
I commenced going there over ten years ago. I had at that time on my 
face what my doctors pronounced a cancerous sore. I used the water 
from Basin Spring very freely, and the sore on my face entirely disap- 
peared. I was so much in love with the climate and the waters that I 
purchased a cottage there and have been in the habit of spending 
several weeks there each spring since. I also have the water shipped 
to me in large quantities, and use it all the time on my table. I feel 
that I cannot say too much in praise of the place and the waters, and I 
would recommend any one afflicted with kidney trouble or disordered 
blood to go to Eureka Springs. Yours very truly, 

JOHN B. SHERMAN. 

Below is an endorsement from the President of the National Tablet 
and Supply Co. of Elkhart, Ind. , manufacturers of stationers' supplies : 
The National Tablet and Supply Co. , Elkhart, Ind. , 

January 15, 1903. 

Dear Doctor, — I feel I must write you something of my sojourn in 
your romantic little city and of the benefits I received while there. 
You know when I came there I was troubled with that aggravating 
disease called Eczema in its worst form, but after taking your advice 
and treatment, together with the baths in the magical waters for four 
weeks, I came away almost cured. In fact, the treatment did me more 
good than all the medicine I ever took, and I shall try to go down once 
each year and enjoy the baths and the air and the scenery of the Ozark 
Mountains, together M'ith the good cheer and food to be found at the 
Crescent Hotel. I cannot say too much for the curative powers of the 
waters of Eureka. Your true friend, 

C. B. BRODRICK. 

This is from the President of the Fitz Gerald Dry Goods Co. of 
Lincoln, Neb., and Peoria, 111.: 

Lincoln, Neb., November 22, 1902. 
Dear Sir, — It gives me great pleasure to inform you that the benefit 
derived from my stay at the Crescent Hotel is, I believe, permanent. I 
had an acute attack of diabetes and feel confident that my improved 

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condition is due to my stay at Eureka Springs. I may say, also, that my 
physician agrees with me in this conclusion. 

Yours very truly, W. D. FITZ GERALD. 

A testimonial from the State Agent for Michigan of the Home Fire 
Insurance Company of New York, reads : 

Grand Rapids, Mich., January 15, 1899. 

Dear Doctor, — Something over four years ago I was taken with 
fever and bladder trouble. I was very sick for five or six months. 
Finally, my kidneys became badly affected, in fact, I was getting 
Bright' s disease. I was alarmed. I visited several of the most cele- 
brated mineral springs in the country, traveling nearly a year in the 
Middle and Southern States as well as Old Mexico. I found no relief 
until I visited Eureka Springs, Ark., where I was recommended to go 
by Dr. French, of Milwaukee, whom I met at San Antonio, Tex. I 
reached Eureka Springs .some time in January, 1896, nearer dead than 
alive and with little hopes of ever getting any better. Before the 
middle of February I began to improve, and the improvement was so 
rapid that I and my friends were astonished. I drank from two to 
three gallons a day of the Magnetic Spring water, and took from three 
to four baths a week. I came home in April of the same year nearly 
well. My kidneys have never bothered me since. I have been attend- 
ing to business ever since, and consider that I owe my life to the little 
Magnetic Spring at Eureka Springs, Ark. 

Yours very truly, A. J. SINCLAIR. 

Here is a letter from a member of one of the best-known families in 
Kentucky : 

Lexington, Ky. , January 9, 1899. 

Dear Sir, — On May 14, 1893, I arrived in Eureka Springs, Ark., 
for treatment for rheumatism. For several months I had been com- 
pelled to use crutches and was considered by my friends, physicians, and 
myself to be in a very serious condition. I had no hope at best but to 
be permanently crippled, even if so fortunate as to get well. On Sep- 
tember 20th, of the same year, I left, entirely cured. It gives me 
pleasure to recommend Eureka Springs, Ark. , to those afflicted as I was, 
and I can speak in only the highest praise of the climate, water, 
phvsicians, and hospitable people of that place. 

Very respectfully, ROBT. E. GRINSTEAD. 

St. Louis, Mo., January 10, 1899. 
My Dear Doctor, — I spent three months in Eureka Springs in 1898 
and was greatly benefited by the climate and waters. 

Very truly, E. B. INGALLS. 

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A leading jeweler and diamond merchant of Sioux City, la., writes 
as follows : 

Sioux City, Ia., January 6, 1899. 

My Dear Doctor, — It is with a great deal of pleasure I send you my 
personal experience of the benefit arising from my visit to and treatment 
at Eureka Springs. Suffering for months with insomnia, I was induced 
to visit your town for treatment. After three weeks I am pleased to 
say I left perfectly cured, due to the wonderful curative properties of 
the waters prescribed. 1 also desire to add that my daughter, fifteen 
years of age, having suffered for months with rheumatism, was com- 
pletely cured after a stay of two months at the Springs, and, I am 
gratified to say, has never suffered since. 

Sincerely yours, WILL H. BECK. 

The head of the real estate firm of J. S. Montgomery & Co. of 
Galveston, Texas, writes : 

Galveston, Texas, December 18, 1898. 
Dear Doctor, — A few years ago my wife, self, and two children 
spent a month at the Crescent. Thanks to the climate and the waters, 
the health of our little boy was completely restored. I consider 
Eureka Springs an ideal change for folks in our latitude. 

Yours very respectfully, 

JAMES S. MONTGOMERY. 

Lincoln, III., January 27, 1899. 

Dear Doctor, — It is with pleasure that I make the following state- 
ment, hoping that some afflicted one may be influenced thereby to test 
the healing virtues of the waters and climate at Eureka Springs, Ark. 
My wife has been afflicted many years with female difficulties and 
nervous prostration, with a general giving way of the entire system. 
Our home physicians, after exhausting all their skill to no effect, ad- 
vised her to go to Chicago and undergo an operation in the hospital. 
This she did only to be left in a more desperate condition. Our old 
family physican then advised, as a last resort, a change of climate. 
After going West and spending a time without beneficial results, we put 
in three months at El Dorado Springs, Mo. But her case still grew 
more hopeless. Like the drowning man catching at a straw, we de- 
cided to go to Eureka Springs. W'e spent nearly two years there, and 
I am glad to say her improvement was very soon discernable. And 
she has continued to improve, until now, although nearly sixty-seven 
years old, her health is better than for the last twenty years. We at- 
tribute all to the healing virtues of the water and climate of Eureka 
Springs. My advice to the afflicted is : " Go thou, and do likewise." 

C. G. KEOWN. 



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4724 Drexel Boulevard, Chicago, III., February 10, 1899. 
J/y Dear Doctor, — About ten years ago I first visited Eureka Springs 
with very serious stomach trouble and dyspepsia. I drank the w^ater 
at any and all of the springs many times each day for six weeks and 
returned home completely cured. I found the climate good, the moun- 
tain air, drives, and horseback riding most enjoyable, and grand to re- 
store one's health. I know of no better place in this country for a per- 
son run down in health, tired, or suffering from nervous prostration in 
which to rest and build up than Eureka Springs. I wish I could spend 
every April and May there. 

GEORGE T. WILLIAMS. 

Decatur, III., March 29, 1902. 
Dear Sir, — For two months I was almost helpless from sciatic 
rheumatism. I could not sit down. Medicine seemed to do me 
no permanent good, so I went to your city. The wonderful curative 
properties of your climate and water entirely restored me to my usual 
good health. I returned home better and heavier than in years. My 
visit not only benefited me but also my family. You are at liberty to 
use this for the sake of afflicted ones. 

J. M. WILLARD. 

The President of the Riverside Publishing Company of Chicago has 
this to say : 

Chicago, III., January 18, 1899. 

Dear Doctor, — My wife received very great benefit while at 
Eureka Springs, which was due not only to the water she drank but 
the climate and the excellent baths and medical attendance which she 
received while there. You are at perfect liberty to use my name as a 
reference to any invalid who may wish to write me, and I shall take 
pleasure in answering any communications that may come from suffer- 
ing humanity. Yours very truly, H. E. SEVER. 

The following is from the Surveyor of Customs of Sioux City, la. : 
Office of Surveyor of Customs, 

Port of Sioux City, Ia. , December 17, 1902. 
Aly Dear Doctor, — After reaching home from my twelfth visit to 
Eureka Springs, Ark., I feel it a duty to let you know my feelings in 
regard to your famous resort. To the sedentary business man with 
stomach, liver, and kidneys torpid, no place in my experience returns 
such quick and lasting benefits, and I always return to my duties with 
renewed strength and zest. Eureka Springs is a natural sanitarium and 
will become the Mecca of the afflicted. 

Sincerely yours, J. H. BOLTON. 

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Prophktstown, III., December 30, 1902. 
Dear Doctor, — I take great pleasure in testifying to the great good 
received in Eureka Springs. The waters and baths alone have nearly- 
cured me of an obstinate case of Eczema of fifteen years' duration. 
Many physicians have exerted their best efforts to cure my malady, 
but none of them were able to give me the relief and cure that has 
followed my visit to your unique city. You are privileged to use this 
for the good of others. SARAH OTT. 

Henry, III., August 11, 1899. 
Dear Doctor, — It gives me pleasure to testify to the efficacy of the 
waters at Eureka Springs, Ark. I came there with chronic constipation 
of the bowels of long standing. In three weeks' time I was called 
away on account of sickness in my family, but I am gratified to give to 
a suffering humanity the testimony of a speedy cure. 

Mrs. M. L. HILDEBRAXT. 

The communication printed below is from the President of The 
Canfield & Wheeler Co., Manistee, Mich., manufacturers of lumber, 
lath, and salt : 

Manistee, Mich., December 17, 1898. 
Dear Doctor, — I consider Eureka Springs the most restful place I 
have ever been for a tired out business man to brace up in. A four or 
five weeks' stay at the Springs makes a new man of me. 

Yours as ever, E. D. ^YHEELER. 

A letter received from the head of the Suda Hardware Co. of Louis- 
iana, Mo., reads: 

Louisiana, Mo., January 6, 1899. 
My Dear Doctor, — My wife and daughter were greatly benefited by 
their visits to your city, both in summer and winter. There are wonder- 
ful properties in the water, and the climate is sublime. 

Respectfully, \V. F. SUDA. 

Below is a letter from a member of the firm of Dudley & Dudley, 
attorneys at law at Paris, Texas: 

Paris, Texas, January 23, 1899. 

Dear Doctor, — Having spent four summers at Eureka Springs in 
company with my family, enjoying its delightful climate and drinking 
its marvelous waters, I am prepared to state that in my opinion, as a 
health resort and as a place for the building up of an overworked or run 
down system, it has no equal in the Southwest. The air is perfectly 
pure and exhilarating. The scenery is grand beyond description, while 
the best waters that ever burst from the fountains of the earth flow from 
numerous springs. J. G. DUDLEY. 

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Eureka Springs, Ark., February 17, 1898. 

Dear Sir, — I came here late in December, 1897, very much run 
down and also threatened with Bright' s disease. In seven weeks I 
have gained ten pounds in weight and all symptoms of the disease 
named have disappeared. Very respectfully, 

409 Security Building, St. Louis, Mo. IRVING McGOWAN. 

Eureka Springs, Ark., December 20, 1898. 
Dear Doctor, — I am glad to testify to the good effects of the climate 
and the waters of Eureka Springs. Although I have been here but a 
short time, I find myself much better than I have been for a long 
period. I am sure the waters are exceedingly beneficial in chronic cases 
of stomach trouble. You are at liberty to refer to me at any time. 
Very sincerely yours, Mrs. JAMES MIX, 

2836 Indiana Ave., Chicago, 111. 

Kansas City, Mo., March 18, 1892. 

Dear Sir, — About seven years ago, in the State of Chiapas, Mexico, 
I fell ill with a fever which almost proved fatal, but I recovered, and for 
nine or ten months appeared to be getting my health O. K. Then I be- 
gan to experience a sickness of the stomach ; and my liver, which was 
(before my illness) healthy, commenced to trouble me regularly. I be- 
came unable to work and was compelled to commence treatment with the 
best doctors I could find, and I have been continually taking medicine 
since up until May (este anos), 1901. I went to Eureka Springs fully 
discouraged and very much disgusted with medicine and with 
physicians, for during six years I had taken treatment from the best 
physicians I could find in the cities of San Diego, Cal., Los Angles, 
Cal., and in Indianapolis, Ind., and other cities. I was even examined 
by the famous Dr. Flowers, of Massachusetts. However, I received 
absolutely no benefit from any of the doctors, and through advice of 
Mr. E. E. Moore and a few others (friends of my father from Cherry- 
vale, Kas.,) I went to Eureka Springs and in three months' residence, 
continually drinking sweet spring water with no medicine, I feel, and 
certainly am, better than I have been during six years. The water 
surely has done for me what physicians and all sorts of medicine failed 
to do. I must say I went to the Springs with no faith whatever in the 
water for my case (which all the doctors pronounced catarrh of 
stomach and liver), but did so to please my father and mother. I 
cannot fully express my gratitude for the advice which led me to the 
Springs. I now have confidence and believe the w^ater will cure me 
entirely if it has not already done so. I certainly can, and will, rec- 
ommend Eureka Springs every opportunity. 

Yours truly, 

UOO Oak Street, Kansas City. ED. L. BENSON. _ 

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Here is what a member of the firm of Eddy & Eddy of St. Louis, 
manufacturers of grocers' sundries, has to say : 

St. Louis, Mo., January 2^, 1899. 

Dear Doctor, — It gives me pleasure to state that I have derived 
great benefit, as well as pleasure, from my repeated visits to Eureka 
Springs. The purity of the waters, the delightful climate and fascinat- 
ing scenery all combine to make it a most delightful resort for those 
who need to recuperate, as well as for others who may be seeking 
pleasure and rest. Very truly, A. A. EDDY. 

This is from the General Claim Agent of the Missouri Pacific 
Railway : 

St. Louis, Mo., November 7, 1900. 

My Dear Doctor, — Mrs. Jones returned home greatly improved in 
every way. As you know, she went to Eureka Springs in a very feeble 
and exhausted condition, after a long siege of typhoid fever. I wish 
to say unhesitatingly that the pure air and water of Eureka Springs are 
entitled to great credit for her very decided improvement. As a place 
for convalescence, the pure mountain air, the wonderful water, and the 
beautiful scenery combine to give ideal conditions. 

Very sincerely yours, W. E. JONES. 

Macomb, III., January 1, 1902. 
My Dear Doctor, — For over twenty years I have been afifiicted with 
some form of stomach trouble which prevented my sleeping at night and 
made me miserable by day. During July and August, 1900, I visited 
Eureka Springs and used those wonderful waters and obtained entire 
relief. After going home I used the water for some time, having it 
shipped. I have never had any return of the malady since. You may 
refer to me if you desire. J. C. McCLELLAN. 

Waukegan, III., December 19, 1898. 
Aly Dear Doctor, — I have never visited Eureka Springs for relief 
from any specific ailment, but rather for the pure air which you have 
in such abundance, and to escape the rigors of our cold winters and 
springs. I have, however, heard abundant testimony from invalids 
whom I have met there, and who had obtained substantial relief from 
their complaints, by the use of the waters, to feel certain that the waters 
flowing from the various springs in and about your town are highly 
efficacious in the cure of rheumatism and kidney troubles in their 
various forms, and in combination with the climate they are effective in 
cases of catarrh. Indeed, as a " health resort," when air and water 
are both taken into consideration, I deem Eureka Springs equal to any 
I have ever visited. Yours very truly, 

H. W. BLODGETT. 

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Louisiana, Mo., January 12, 1899. 
Afy Dear Doc^o?', — M.rs. Stark had a severe case of rheumatism, 
which was thoroughly cured during our stay of five weeks there, through 
March and early April of last spring. And, best of all, there has been 
no recurrence of the trouble, so that she has been very enthusiastic in 
recommending Eureka Springs to her friends and acquaintances. Speak- 
ing for myself, most certainly there is no better place to go for a rest. 

Truly, C. M". STARK. 

Eureka Springs, Ark., May 1, 1898. 
Dear Sir, — I came to Eureka Springs on the 16th of January, 1898, 
suffering from aggravated kidney trouble. I had been ordered by my 
physician to stop work and go to some place for complete rest. By 
chance, I was directed to the *' Gem of the Ozarks." I had been in 
bed for some time previous to my coming ; was very much reduced in 
flesh, had no appetite and had lost all interest in life. I began drink- 
ing the Magnetic water, drinking as much as two gallons per day, and 
as soon as I was able began taking walks. I began improving 
immediately ; my complexion cleared up, renewed vigor came to me, 
and I gained flesh rapidly. In one month's time I gained sixteen pounds 
of flesh and felt better than I have since my boyhood days on the 
farm. I go away feeling that I have gained the most substantial 
results. I am so thoroughly convinced that my own life has been 
prolonged and my usefulness increased by my sojourn in your midst 
that I am desirous of leaving with you an account of my wonderful 
experience with the climate and waters of Eureka Springs. You are 
at perfect liberty to use this note in any manner you may see fit. 
Sincerely, GEORGE FREDERIC AYERS, 

Independence, Mo. 

Pine Bluff, Ark., January 16, 1899. 
My Dear Doctor, — It is a pleasure to me to testify as to the merits 
of the waters of Eureka Springs. I had been suffering for two years 
from uric acid, causing severe and constant headaches, from which I 
could obtain no permanent relief by the use of the many diff"erent medi- 
cines which I took. Three years ago, having then suff'ered for two 
years with my trouble, I spent one week at Eureka Springs, drinking 
the waters very freely, from which I received much benefit. The fol- 
lowing summer I spent three weeks at Eureka Springs, and was much 
benefited and well repaid for my small expenditure while there. In 
addition to the benefit received while there, my time was spent very 
pleasantly, the scenery being beautiful and picturesque, and the climate 
very pleasant ; the walks and drives were rendered extremely delight- 
ful. I would be glad to have you refer anyone to me who is desirous 

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of knowing the many good points concerning Arkansas' fine summer 
and health resort, where one can find a pleasant climate together with 
mountain scenery and air and good health, and that within easy reach 
of the Southern people. Very truly yours, 

W. N. TRULOCK. 

Union Stock Yards, Chicago, January 12, 189V). 
My Dear Doctor, — I have been visiting your town each spring for 
the last five years and am pleased to be able to recommend it as a 
health resort, both as regards its many different waters and its clear, 
bracing air laden with the smell of pines, all inducing to walking and 
other vigorous exercise out of doors. The various springs, flowing 
waters of different properties, are wonderfully beneficial and I believe 
they will cure, or at least alleviate, the majority of troubles to which 
man is heir. I prize the water of some of the springs so highly on 
account of its purity that I have it shipped to me here in cases for 
regular use and I have never known it to grow stale in the bottles, even 
when kept for upward of a year. I have known some astonishing 
cures which could be attributed solely to the water and air at Eureka 
Springs. One I now have in mind is that of an old employe of this 
company who was gradually going down with cancer at the root of the 
tongue. He had submitted to one operation and was finally told there 
was little hope for him. He then, six years ago, visited Eureka Springs 
and now has no fear of a recurrence of his trouble though he still goes 
there each spring to keep his system in good shape. I cannot say 
enough in praise of the water and the bracing air at Eureka Springs. 

Respectfully, JAMES H. ASHBY. 



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ROUND TRIP FARES ^rmed%Ssio^ EUREKA SPRINGS 



Austin, Tex. 
Birminghain, Ala. 
Brownwood, Tex. 
Cedar Rapids, la. 
Chicago, 111. 
Chickasha, I. T. 
Cincinnati, O. . 
Dallas, Tex. . 
Denver, Col. 
Denison, Tex. . 



525.25 
23.50 
20.85 
25.45 
27.50 
12.50 
26.90 
13.90 
40.10 
12.00 



Des Moines, la. 
Duluth, Minn. 
Ft. Smith, Ark. 
Ft. Scott, Kan. 
Ft. Worth, Tex. 
Galveston. Tex. 
Houston, Tex. . 
Kansas City, Mo. 
Lincoln, Neb. . 



.f22.50 
. 41.10 
. fi.80 
. 7.80 
. 15.20 
. 27.50 
. 25.50 
11.50 
. 22.45 



Memphis, Tenn. . $11.50 
Milwaukee, Wis. . 32.00 
Minneapolis, Minn. 34.50 
Oklahoma City, O.T. 11.50 
Omaha, Neb. . . 22.75 
Paris, Tex. . . . 10.00 
Peoria. 111. . . . 20.30 
Pueblo, Col. . . 40.10 
St. Joseph, Mo. . 14.55 



St. Louis, Mo. .fl2.50 
St. Paul, Minn. . 34.50 
San Antonio, Tex. 29.25 



Sherman, Tex. 
Sioux i;ity, la. 
Topeka, Kan. . 
Tupelo, Miss. . 
Van Buren, Ark. 
Wichita, Kan. . 



12.00 
27.70 
14.00 
16.55 
6.60 
11.00 



For more detailed information concerning EUREKA SPRINGS, or how to get there, please call upon or 
address any of the following " Frisco System " : 

GENERAL AND TRAVELING AGENTS. 



ATLANTA, GA., Pryor and Decatur streets.— 
W.T. Saunders, General Agent Passenger De- 
partment ; F. E-. Clark, Traveling Passenger 
Agent; ChaS. F. AUSTIN, Commercial Agent. 

BIRMINGHAM, ALA., Morris Hotel. — P. R. 
MacKinnon, City Passenger Agent ; E.T.WlLL- 
COX, Commercial Agent. 

CHICAGO, ILL., 332 Marquette Building.— F. 
C. Reilly, General Agent ; C. H. Adolph, City 
Passenger Agent; J. M. JILLICH, Traveling Pas- 
senger Agent; G. H'.Kummer, Traveling Freight 
Agent; M. W. BURNS, Traveling Freight Agent. 

CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO. — W. R. POWE, 
General Freight and Passenger Agent. 

CINCINNATI, OHIO, 407 Walnut Street— C. 

C. Spalding, General Agent; H. I. MCGUIRE, 
Traveling Passenger Agent; C. S. HALL, Travel- 
ing Freight Agent; C. HANSON, Copenhagen, 
Denmark, Foreign Immigration Agent. 

DALLAS, TEX., 259 Main Street. — CAL. P. 
TOHNSTON, Southwestern Passenger Agent; H. 
W. ADAMS, Commercial Agent ; ROY TERRELL, 
Traveling Freight Agent. 

DENVER, COL., 1106 Seventeenth Street. — G. 
W. MARTIN, General Western Agent ; J. J. DOO- 
LITTLE, Traveling Freight and Passenger Agent ; 

D. B. EldridGE, Traveling Freight and Passen- 
ger Agent. 

FORT SCOTT, KAN. — E. E. Dix, General 
Agent. 

FORT SMITH, ARK. — F. M. RICHARDSON, 
General Agent ; F. BUMGAKDNER, Traveling 
Freight Agent. 

FORT WORTH, TEX. —J. B. MORROW, City 
Passenger and Ticket Agent ; E. M. WiNSTEAD, 
Commercial Agent; C. E. WYNNE, Jr., Traveling 
Freight Agent. 

HOUSTON, TEX.— W. C. CONNOR, Jr.. Com- 
mercial Agent ; JAS. A. GiRAUD, Traveling 
Freight Agent. 

JONESBORO, ARK. — C. P. HEADLY, Travel- 
ing Freight Agent. 

JOPLIN, MO., Keystone Hotel. — L.W. Price, 
Division Passenger Agent ; T. J.FRANKS, Division 
Freight Agent ; E. C. HOAG, Traveling Freight 
Agent; H. E. MORRIS, Traveling Freight Agent. 

KANSAS CITY, MO., Thayer Building. —J. C. 
LOURIEN, Assistant General Passenger Agent: 
Phil. Johnston, City Passenger Agent; CO. 
Jackson, Traveling Passenger Agent; W. K. 
Rogers, Depot Passenger Agent. 

KANSAS CITY, MO., Board of Trade. — E. S. 
Stephens, Commercial Agent ; E. T. HALL, 
Traveling Freight Agent. 

LOS ANGELES, CAL., 208 Stjnson Building.— 
J. F. Edwards, Pacific Coast Agent. 



LOUISVILLE, KY., 300 West Main Street. — 
J. M. Kirk, Traveling Freight Agent. 

MEMPHIS, TENN., Peabody Hotel. —J. N. 
CORNATZAR, General Agent Passenger Depart- 
ment ; Eugene SUTCLIFFE, City Passenger 
Agent ; W. L. EVANS, Traveling Passenger Agent ; 
Frank Griffith, Traveling Passenger Agent; 
P. S. Weever, City Ticket Agent. 

MEMPHIS, TENN., 347 Main Street. — W. P. 
Adams, Commercial Agent ; R. E. BUCHANAN, 
Traveling Freight Agent. 

MEXICO CITY, MEX., 6 Calle de Gante.— 
Alexander More, General Agent. 

NASHVILLE, TENN. —BRUCE JEFFRIES, 
Travelling Passenger Agent. 

NEW ORLEANS, LA., St. Charles Hotel.— I. 
T. Preston, Commercial Agent. 

NEW YORK, N. Y., 385 Broadway. — F. D. 
Russell, General Eastern Agent; J. L. CAR- 
LING, Freight and Passenger Agent; W. H. POR- 
TER, Traveling Freight and Passenger Agent ; 
Geo. L. TruiTT, Traveling Freight and Passen- 
ger Agent. 

OKLAHOMA, O. T. — Warren BAKER, Gen- 
eral Agent ; J. H. GROTHER, Traveling Passen- 
ger Agent. 

OMAHA, NEB., 205 South Fourteenth Street.— 
W. C. Melville, Northwestern Passenger Agent ; 
E. F. Serviss, Commercial Agent. 

PITTSBURG, PA., 706 Park Building. — O. M. 
CONLEY, General Agent ; SIDNEY VAN DUSEN, 
Traveling Passenger Agent ; W. MILLIGAN, 
Traveling Freight Agent. 

SAINT LOUIS, S. E. corner 8th and Olive 
streets. — F. J. DeiCKE, City Passenger and Ticket 
Agent; CAL. DUTTON, Union Station Passenger 
Agent; A. D. LiGHTNER, General Agent Freight 
Department ; WALTER E. BROWN, Traveling 
Freight Agent. 

SAINT LOUIS, Nulsen Building. 6th and Olive 
streets. — S. A. HUGHES, General Immigration 
Agent; A. S. HART, Advertising Agent; K. M. 
WlSHART, Traveling Passenger Agent. 

ST. PAUL, MINN. — C. W. HUMPHREY, North- 
ern Passenger Agent. 

SAN ANTONIO, TEX.. 102 West Commercial 
Street. — J. W. HUTCHISON. Traveling Passenger 
Agent; E. F. TILLMAN, Commercial Agent. 

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., 105 Front Street.— 
J. F. EDWARDS, Pacific Coast Agent ; H.E.Need- 
HAM, Commercial Agent. 

SPRINGFIELD, MO. — W. C. SMITH, General 
Agent. 

WICHITA, KAN. — C. W. STRAIN, Division 
Passenger Agent ; H. C. CONLEY, Commercial 
Agent ; E. E. CARTER, Traveling Freight Agent. 



A. S. DODGE, 

Freight Traffic Manager, 



BRYAN SNYDER, 

Passenger Traffic Manager, 

SAINT LOUIS. 



ALEX. HILTON, 

General Passenger Agent, 



ST. LOUIS & NORTH ARKANSAS RAILROAD. 

R. H. JAMES, Traveling Passenger Agent, W. S. ROBERTS, Auditor, 

Eureka Springs, Ark. 



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